It doesn't work for me with any of 5.8.4, 5.10.0, 5.10.1, 5.12.2 and 5.12.3 (those are the ones I have available for testing here). And IIRC, it never worked with any vanilla build of perl.

So the program I'm debugging right now runs into code that was never executed on the old installation. Grrrr....

Maybe your Slackware 5.10.0 had a specific patch applied?

No, Slackware usually builds perl without extra patches. In SL13.0, there is a trivial multilib patch, but it is not applied on a 32 bit build. (Update: Same situation with 13.37: trivial multilib patch, applied only on x86_64)

I think this is what I remembered: Clash between IO layers and "in memory" files?.

Looks familiar. 4 years old and still not working. Oh well, it seems the real problem with the program is somewhere else.

Thanks for testing, and for the link.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: Perl 5.12: layers and opening scalars as file handles by afoken
in thread Perl 5.12: layers and opening scalars as file handles by afoken

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